Archive for June, 2009

I’m taking a brief break from my busy schedule of blogging to give you a message of hope, South Africanese and enjoyable reading. A friend, Alex, has started a lovely little site called “Old Takkies Indaba” (for our foreign friends, Takkies are sneakers). It’s a great collection of stories from South Africans both local and [...]

Yep. I have writer’s block. I can’t for the life of me think of something interesting enough to blog about so you get this post instead. My most humble apologies to my three readers. The thing is, I often get this way and it’s one of the reasons I haven’t yet finished a book that [...]

No really. I have two so I’ve had some time to observe them. At the best of times they’re peculiar little beasts. A strange blend of cute, sweetness and evil-minded viciousness that puts the worst overbearing parents to shame. Some of them are also not very good at being cats. A case in point is [...]

And after kicking off my most boring blog post ever, I'm going to bed. # What a miserable bloody day. # Weird. I just found a Ben Trovato book I swear I didn't have before. Are my books multiplying now? # Anyone know what "1 mention" in tweetdeck is? #

Just a quick bit on a couple of movies. I just finished watching Marley & Me with my wife and it’s a surprisingly good watch. I really went into it expecting a typical Owen Wilson comedy dive but it really came up with some surprisingly genuine emotion. Well worth a watch. The other thing that [...]

RIP Michael JAckson. Poor bugger. #

As of 18:51 on the 26/06/2009 searching for “Michael Jackson Dead” turns up 17.8 million records. I’m not writing about his life or anything he may or may not have done. That’s been played out all over the world many, many times. This is all about the music. Michael Jackson’s music is something that captivated [...]

So very soon I’ll be bringing a new site into the collective fold. Newsboy will be an interesting new site I hope. We’ll see how it goes. I’ll also be trying out a bunch of new design stuff. Design has never been my strong point (think a blind guy with no fingers trying to make [...]

Yep. I have decided. Now all I need to do is get quotes and actually get the thing. I looked at the Lenovo S10 (a very small form factor laptop) but in the end decided that I needed to have somethinething to actually work on. Perhaps before I go overseas next year I’ll grab the [...]